Lesson+Summary+Page

Kindergarten - Language Arts/Social Studies/Technology - Primary School "Helpers"
**Lesson Summary**: “Today we will learn the names of all the adult helpers and teachers at our school. We will take their photos and draw pictures to make a book. This book will help us remember their names and how they help us. We will put this book on the computer, on our class website, so you can read it to your family.” ~Janet Wisdom

Kindergarten - Reading - Tapping Verses and Rhymes
**Lesson Summary:** Utilizing my interactive white board, material from Timothy Rasinski’s Fluency First! Reading program will be used to develop early reading skills and increase fluency by focusing on teacher modeled reading and providing support for students’ independent reading through repeated practice. An emphasis will be placed on beginning phonics and word study as we work with the various verses. Cooperative shared writing activities will also provide students an opportunity to contribute to a revision of the poem or verse, while focusing on sequence, meaning, and attending to words and punctuation. ~Wendy Yule

Kindergarten - Money Lesson
**Lesson Summary:** Students will sort coins, count the number and/or valueof the groups of coins, and compare inequalities using equal/non-equal symbols and greater that and less than symbols. Goals (Learning Objectives): Learning objectives will be communicated to students. Students will personalize learning objectives by forming their own coin amounts and comparisons during the assignment. ~ Diane Rasmussen

1st Grade - Money Unit
**Lesson Summary**: I will read objectives to the students provided in the Houghton Mifflin teacher’s manual. I will then use a Smart Notebook money lesson created to supplement Chapter 14. Students will listen to the Jack Hartman song again that sings about pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters as well as a poem on pennies, nickels, and dimes. Students will review the names and values of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Students will come to the Smart board and match fronts and backs of coins, match coins to their name, and match coins to their value. Students learn to count to find the value of groups of dimes, nickels, and pennies. Students learn to order and count coins from greatest to least value. A game provides practice with counting coins and showing an amount with the fewest coins. We will conclude with a practice sheet from Houghton Mifflin and a journal entry in the student’s math journals. ~Cheryl Larson

2nd Grade - Arts/History - Style of George O'Keefe
**Lesson Summary:** This is an art lesson that provides practice for thinking skills. It is designed to help students in Wisconsin know and remember information and ideas about art and Design around them and throughout the world. It also demonstrates the role of technological tools and equipment. ~Missy Eid

2nd Grade - Cross Curriculum & Technology - iPads
**Lesson Summary**: The students will be able to us an ipad to access educational apps to reinforce concepts learned during classroom instruction. The students will work in cooperative groups during a discovery period where they will explore this device that they have never used before. Students will also work with one another to develop a “how to” guide to using an ipad. Finally, given a vast selection of apps, they will learn how to use one and show it to the class. ~Jessica Herbst

3rd Grade - Science/Language Arts/Technology - Bats

 * __ Lesson Summary __** : Students will be learning about bats using the bat kit from CESA 12. They will be completing tasks from the AIMS bat curriculum book. Prior to that, students will activate prior knowledge and compile a list of questions that they have about bats and what they would like to know about bats. Students will choose a question to research and find the answer to. The students will work in the computer lab, using the internet to research their topic. The teacher will guide students through the process of conducting research online - the use of keywords, search engines, and validating information. The students will supplement their internet research by using books in the classroom and library. The students will put together their research to form a well-put together answer to their bat question. Students will work on using projection skills to speak loudly and clearly for the camera. Students will use the Flip video camera to record the question and answer that each student researched. The students also can come up with interesting jokes and stories about bats to provide entertainment. ~Betty Erickson

3rd - 5th Grades - Computers & Math - Graphs and Spreadsheets (Excel)
**Lesson Summary:** This lesson will provide students with a hands-on learning experience in the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. Create a Graph and Excel will be used to complete this process. ~Rita Ploetz

4th Grade and Spanish 2 - Reading/Spanish - Book Making

 * Lesson Summary**: Students will create their own story based on a format -style book based on some aspect of Spanish language.

5th Grade - Reading/Language Arts - Digital Storytelling
~Kathy Noteboom
 * Lesson Summary:** In this unit, students will learn about the age-old practice of storytelling and use 21st century tools to create their own digital story. Students will explore digital storytelling as a way to tell a story, promote cross-cultural understanding and build meaningful connections with others. Students will participate in an email exchange to discuss the process. They will 1) develop a story topic 2) write their story 3) create or find appropriate images to support their story and 4) share their story and reflect on their work.

**5th Grade - Sharing our School Garden on the Web**
**Lesson Summary:** This project is going to be run by you the students. We are going to set up a Moodle or wiki to share our work and progress on our vegetable and flower gardens. We will write stories, take pictures, and share the information we gather with other people that find it interesting. ~Jay Burfield

5th Grade - Reading - Book Report
I will describe the process and go through the directions with the students and show them how to access the directions from our class wiki. Students will read a book at their level and demonstrate understanding of setting, characterization, and plot through the creation of a digital poster (Glog). After students upload their projects to the wiki, I will go through the rubric with each student to assess the projects. They will have the opportunity to edit their glog to improve, and Glogster will automatically apply the changes to the glogs that are embedded in the wiki. After the edit, I will use the rubric to assess the projects and assign a grade. ~Jennifer Lake
 * Lesson Summary:** Students will read a book on their own and create a Glog to advertise the book.

Grade 6 - Writing & Technology - Computer Usage
**Lesson Summary:** The purpose of this lesson is to establish the knowledge and skill level of the students in the 6th grade class. This lesson will involve taking an online survey that asks the student to identify key parts of the laptop interface. Using the SMART Interactive board, the students will respond to screen shots and images that correspond to the questions on the survey. Once the assessment is done, the class will analyze the results. ~Amy Davies-Wiebusch

6th Grade - Art - Color Theory
**Lesson Summary:** Through this lesson, students will learn all about the primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. They will also learn some basic color sequences and terminology. Students will take a simple “Clicker” quiz on color theory. The end product of this lesson will be for students to create their own color wheel using their names and a complimentary color sequence. ~Jeanne Pearce

Grade 6-8 - Language Arts - Parts of Speech
**Lesson Summary:** This lesson will provide students with the opportunity to review parts of speech by viewing cartoon animated videos. Students will brainstorm as a group to put words into different categories for the different parts of speech. This lesson will provide students with the opportunity to create a story on a web based site by focusing on past experience in using parts of speech. The lesson will provide students with the opportunity to continue practicing how to creating a notebook presentation. The students will create a notebook from a story they created on a web based site. This presentation will be introduced through a SMARTBoard lesson. ~Ricki Swanson

Grade 8 - Algerbra - Quadratic Relationships

 * Lesson Summary:** Following the CMP unit entitled **__Frogs, Fleas and Painted Cubes,__** which will introduce students to quadratic relationships in graph, table, situation and equation forms, students will work through an interactive website which expands on their knowledge of writing quadratic equations before applying that knowledge to a computer game. ~Julie Olson

8th Grade - Physical Science - Speed of Sound
L**esson Summary:** This lesson uses the Vernier Technology software and their microphone and temperature probe to determine the speed of sound in a classroom setting. This is an event that is very difficult to measure as it is a task that at best can only be approximated because of the speed of the event. Students will create a sound wave (snap of the fingers or dog training clicker) that will be started at the entrance of an approximately 1 meter long tube (exact length must be known). The sound wave will create an echo that will be timed so that the sound wave will be able to be visualized graphically with the Logger Pro software. They will then analyze the graphical depiction of the wave and determine the time it takes for the echo to be received. At this point the students should be able to determine the speed of the sound. Since the experiment can be easily replicated, they will run several trials and learn that multiple trials help them to obtain a more accurate result by averaging their results. Students will also be able to change variables in the experiment and determine whether a change in temperature or even a change in the gas medium affects the speed of sound. ~Rick Holan

8-10 - Spanish - Flashcard Lesson

 * Lesson Summary:** Students will use student-created, color-coded flashcards to form accurate sentences in Spanish. They will be prompted with a sentence in English accompanied by a picture, and then they will play in pairs (or a group of three if there are odd numbers in class) to race to create the correct sentence. After they've created the sentence, I will reveal the correct answer on the PowerPoint. ~Nicole Ollanketo

9th Grade - English - Building Better Sentences
**Lesson Summary:** Students will use the concepts of propositions and sentence analysis to appropriately expand their writing. ~Dan Madison

** Grade 9-12 - Math - Algebra Tiles **

 * Lesson Summary:** This Unit will have several lesson will help student’s build their understanding of algebraic expressions and equations through the use of algebra tiles. ~Laureen Peterson


 * Grade 9-12 Spanish 2 and 4th Grade - Reading/Spanish - Book Making **
 * Lesson Summary**: Students will create their own story based on a format -style book based on some aspect of Spanish language. ~Olkonen-Patritto

In this lesson, students will learn how to use a computer based graphing tool, allowing them the ability to see graphic and symbolic representations of various quadratic equations. The symbolic representation will utilize three different forms for the quadratic equation; general, root and vertex. Students will then apply real world application problems to understand which form best represents the presentation of the problem. ~Steve Billings
 * 9-12 - Algerbra 2 - High School Mathematics Seeing The Quadratic Equation**

9-12 - Spanish - Cultural Geography Using GoogleEarth
**Lesson Summary**: Students will use Google Earth to create a narrated trip to 6 locations in a specified Spanish-speaking area. Each trip will be presented in class and evaluated based on a rubric. Narration will include weather, a picture and a location description with at least two facts. ~Joy Kielcheski

Grade 10-12 - Porfolio Wikis Using Studio Art
**Lesson Summary:** Students will create their own Wiki page which will become their online portfolio. They will learn how to use a variety of technology tools to create this page, considering design and add their own element of creativity to make their page unique. Students will share their pages through the art department on the school website. ~Nicole Ollanketo

11th Grade - American Literature - Using Internet Resources and Avoiding Plagiarism
**Lesson Summary**: This lesson is presented early in the coursework. Students are given a difficult interpretation essay assignment, such as interpreting the symbolism in a short story. Since I know students will use resources like SparkNotes, I will teach them to use them effectively without falling into the traps of plagiarism. ~James Babler

11th & 12th Grades - Physics - Projectile Motion
**Lesson Summary:** Students will hypothesize about the angle, velocity and mass of a projectile to achieve a specific distance and the longest distance. In forming the hypothesis students will use kinematic equations to calculate distance in the x and y directions. They will use their results to predict the result of projectile motion on the computer simulation "Projectile Motion" from PHet simulations. From the comparisons of the calculations and computer simulations, students will develop, build and tech a catapult that can be changed to achieve a particular height and distance. Videos will be produced of the launches of the projectiles from the catapults and analyzed using the Logger Pro software from Vernier. Students will post the videos on our Physics Wiki with a narrated conclusion to the experiment. ~Dawn Ertl

11th & 12th Grades - Physics - Momentum an Collisions
**Lesson Summary:** The laws of conservation of momentum and collisions are typically explored using air tracks. However, due to the high cost of air tracks, these activities are often times skipped in the high school physics curriculum or are attempted with alternative equipment that result in large experimental errors. In this lesson, students will use an interactive simulation to perform the typical air track experiment. ~Matt Verch